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(This prediction was coupled with Jane’s use of the hot towels on her knees—as Seth has suggested she do often in the recent sessions—and which Jane has largely ignored. Nor have I encouraged her to use them. We speculated, then, about the reasons or beliefs that lay behind this neglect on our parts. I named several beliefs that could be operating, ranging all the way from a fear of failure to our not wanting to see the symptoms go. So we asked that Seth consider our laxness in not using the towels in the session tonight.

To some extent, you are both holding your breath, so to speak, until your working men are gone. There is no one reason why Ruburt has not used the hot towels with any regularity, or why you have not reminded him—rather, a combination of reasons. Certainly if your joint desire to see Ruburt better was as active and dedicated as theoretically it should be, the towels would have been used.

Some feelings of tension at various times then are simply the result of stages in which certain ligaments are moving faster than others. The body’s activity, and there is much of it, is directed toward normal flexibility. In medical procedures, say, the body’s feelings are often masked. This is one of the reasons, say, for the development of secondary symptoms of a medical nature, when one portion of the body is treated, and then other portions seem to develop symptoms. The body is a whole. Each process of the body has that wholeness in mind.